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Procrustean Bed

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Noun

1. procrustean bed, procrustean rule, procrustean standard

a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Procrustean Bed

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n.
An arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced.

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